After downloading and installing the dark GDK, open VC++ 08 and click "File->New->Project" (or "ctrl+shift+N").
Under project types, click "Wizards".
Select "Dark GDK - 2D Game", name the project something like 'Dark GDK - 2D Game1", select the folder in which you want your project to be stored in, and click "OK".
Now, under solution explorer, click "main.cpp".
There will already be a neat little bit of code there and if you run it (ctrl+F5) a neat animation will be displayed!

Now for the editing:

1. Let's edit the code that places the object at a random location, find this code

for ( int i = 2; i < 30; i++ )
{
// create an animated sprite and give it the ID number from the
// variable i, next is the filename, now we come to how many frames
// across and down, in our case this is 4, finally we come to the image
// ID that the sprite will use, again we use i
dbCreateAnimatedSprite ( i, "sprite.bmp", 4, 4, i );
// position our sprite at a random location
dbSprite ( i, dbRnd ( 640 ), -dbRnd ( 1500 ), i );
}

The code will now display 1 object and it will fall to the bottom of the screen.

2. Now, we will make the object work off of user input.

-Find this code:

// now we come to our main loop, we call LoopGDK so some internal
// work can be carried out by the GDK
while ( LoopGDK ( ) )
{
// run a loop through all our sprites
for ( int i = 2; i < 30; i++ )
{
// move the sprite down and play its animation
// moving from frame 1 to 16 with a delay of 60 ms
dbMoveSprite ( i, -2 );
dbPlaySprite ( i, 1, 16, 60 );
// check the position of the sprite, if it has gone off scren
// then reposition it back to the top
if ( dbSpriteY ( i ) > 500 )
dbSprite ( i, dbRnd ( 640 ), -dbRnd ( 1500 ), i );
}
// here we check if the escape key has been pressed, when it has
// we will break out of the loop
if ( dbEscapeKey ( ) )
break;
// here we make a call to update the contents of the screen
dbSync ( );
}

I have Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
(does it work with express edition? if not could u plz tell me wat does?)
Please help me i have downloaded everything but when i am installing the GDK download it says
"Error attempting to read from the source install database:
C:\WINDOWS\Installer\65efb8.msi."

thats what it says and pease reply me as soon as possible i really want to get started on making games
it looks really fun

please please help me if ANY help at all i will appreciate it very very much
!!!!